Bleeding Edge: Promo video for the German market

[alice malice]

He writes about the Sloth of his profession, how it jams up against
all that productivity gain from technologies and the like ( Sloth and
Luddite essays), and, if we can take some autobiographical themes from
his AGTD & M&D Co., well, his interest the role of the story teller,
of the person who would make a living with stories, often clashes with
the financial and market forces, some of the quite close to home, that
make life for a man of letters next to impossible.

On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 2:35 PM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
> What's sad about it? I don't understand. The video hooks them, they
> read BE. The muted horn is like, I don't know, 50 years old and,
> well...chalk on the sidewalk is all hipster and whatever but it
> wouldn't hook anybody who wasn't gonna get hooked. BE and IV are books
> that can pay for the financial disaster that a work of art, something
> like Against the Day, often is. Or an would be, or almost work of art,
> like Vineland is. OK, it's Pynchon and he has it better than so many
> artists cause he's got great work out there and money and success and
> so on, but still, he's not about to Melville himself into some obscure
> corner of Manhattan.
>
> On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 11:43 AM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>> It's sad that anyone thinks that the best way to get people to read Pynchon is to hook them in with a video. The best form of advertising would be to hire some kids to chalk-scrawl on walls and sidewalks the muted horn image with the subscript: B.L.E.E.D.I.N.G. E.D.G.E.
>>
>> Laura
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>>From: John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>
>>>Sent: Aug 3, 2014 10:45 AM
>>>To: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>>>Cc: Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com>, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>, pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>>Subject: Re: Bleeding Edge: Promo video for the German market
>>>
>>>Terrible. TERRIBLE.
>>>
>>>But asking publishers to make A-grade movie trailers on any novel's
>>>marketing budget is equally terrible.
>>>
>>>In the 90s you had your Baudrillards and Delillos forecasting that
>>>shit like this would replace the work itself. Maybe it's a saving
>>>grace that that they can't afford to. Pynchon's writing is hardly
>>>pro-advertising.
>>>
>>>But f--k, how hard is it to sit through either the German or American videos?
>>>
>>>On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 12:39 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Not as terrible as the one set in New York, featuring (I think) his son.
>>>> THAT was terrible, in a similar but worse way.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sunday, August 3, 2014, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe you need to be German to get it. That was terrible
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 4:02 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
>>>>> <lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EDo38geLgo
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "So, where is Horst?"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Too many notes and not really funny.
>>>>>>
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